This is part three in a series of short videos to help you understand the basics of data science. This video focuses on prescriptive analytics, which uses results from multiple machine learning algorithms to inform future decisions. With prescriptive analytics, the object is to optimize and, to some extent, automate the decision-making process. A prescriptive analytics workflow can use multiple algorithms to prescribe actions based on the characteristics of new data.
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